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Man injured in house explosion says Siri app saved his life

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Updated: 12:27 AM EDT May 15, 2017

WILMOT, N.H. —

A man who was seriously injured in a house explosion in Wilmot on May 1 credits the iPhone app "Siri" with saving his life.

Christopher Beaucher has been undergoing treatment at Massachusetts General Hopsital after his face and hands were badly burned in the explosion.

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"I'm very, very, extremely lucky to be alive," he said.Beaucher said he was checking on his mother's cottage at the time, which is vacant and for sale.

He said he saw something suspicious and went inside to check it out, but when he turned on the light switch the house exploded into flames.

"The whole place caught fire," Beaucher said. "Part of it collapsed while I was in it during the initial explosion, so I couldn't really tell where I was."

Somehow he managed to get himself out to his Land Rover and grabbed his cellphone, but he said he couldn't use his fingers to dial 911 due to his burns.

Instead, he asked Siri to do it for him.

"I had the presence of mind to use Siri to at least call 911," Beaucher said.

He said the voice command app likely saved his life.

"I was going into shock, too, so having Siri to dial 911 for me was critical," he said.

He said he remains grateful and optimistic to one day return to his job as a cook at the New London Inn and to tend to his farm in Springfield -- with a new outlook on just how differently everything could have turned out.

"You know, I'm going to be OK after all of this. It's just going to take a while," he said.A GoFundMe page has been created to help offset the cost of treatment.